Posted on 12/21/2011 11:30:56 AM PST by neverdem
Ingredient of some plastics and food packaging can interfere with cardiac rhythm
Bisphenol A toys with the female heart, a new study finds. And under the right conditions, its authors worry, this near-ubiquitous pollutant might even prove deadly.
BPA is a building block of clear hard plastics, dental sealants and the resins lining food cans. Studies have shown that throughout the industrial world, nearly everyone regularly encounters the compound, albeit at trace concentrations.
Thats small consolation, says Laura Vandenberg of Tufts University in Medford, Mass.: In the new BPA study, the most effective dose was very close to if not completely overlapping whats been reported in humans, she says.
Parts-per-trillion concentrations of BPA triggered heart-muscle cells to begin beating to their own internal drummers. These cells should instead hold off beating until they receive signals from a central pacemaker, explains Hong-Sheng Wang of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, whose team conducted the new study. The resulting arrhythmia caused by unsynchronized beating can potentially trigger sudden cardiac death, Wang says.
BPA mimics the hormone estrogen in the body. In 2009, the Cincinnati team showed that both estrogen and BPA could alter contraction rates in heart cells but only those from female animals. The researchers recently linked this finding to estrogens effect on calcium, which plays a pivotal role in heart-cell contractions. Both estrogen and BPA especially together fostered a leakiness of calcium within female heart cells, the team reported in the Sept. 27 PLoS ONE.
Those researchers have now linked this gender-specific effect to cell-surface estrogen sensors that come in two flavors: alpha and beta. Triggering the beta sensors when a cell is stressed stimulates inappropriate autonomous cell contractions, Wangs team reports online in the February 2012 Endocrinology. Alpha sensors inhibit such activity. Differences...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
Urinary, Circulating, and Tissue Biomonitoring Studies Indicate Widespread Exposure to Bisphenol A FReebie
Ventricular arrhythmia is a quick way to die. This is disconcerting, to say the least.
>>Bisphenol A toys with the female heart<<
One thing it and I have in common... ;)
Been watching stories on BPA here and there. It’s def. cause for concern if you’re a man. There are studies linking it to so many diseases and complications that it makes one wonder if going back to drinking from glass makes sense.
No wonder vibrators and snap on tools are gaining ground on men, the plastic mess’s with womens hearts.
It appears Chaz Bono saved herself just in time.
Wow, so you could use a concentrated amount of this put in food to kill only the females in the house hold....
Don’t let the honor killing ROPers find out about this....
An article discussing the relative BPA risk of various types of containers...
http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/the-real-bpa-risks/2011/05/20
The plastic turns them Democrat
That explains a lot.
Nope.
The last thing our government wants is for citizens to have unfettered access to glass containers.
Plastic bottles make lousy Molotov Cocktails...
IMO, it is just another scare tactic by the left in order to regulate something in order to destroy jobs and control people.
That’s a polyester bottle he’s drinking from. It’s not Polycarbonate which is the only clear plastic that has BPA in it.
Now there’s a study that fed monkeys 400 times the dose level that is currently considered safe. The result was that the monkeys had blood levels that were lower than the average US adult, so maybe you can’t get BPA from ingestion at all. Maybe it’s naturally there to begin with. After all it is very similar to endocrine chemicals that the body makes.
The source that would concern me is the dental use. I used to make a dental material that was made from BPA. Dentists still use it for bonding.
That’s a polyester bottle he’s drinking from. It’s not Polycarbonate which is the only clear plastic that has BPA in it.
Now there’s a study that fed monkeys 400 times the dose level that is currently considered safe. The result was that the monkeys had blood levels that were lower than the average US adult, so maybe you can’t get BPA from ingestion at all. Maybe it’s naturally there to begin with. After all it is very similar to endocrine chemicals that the body makes.
The source that would concern me is the dental use. I used to make a dental material that was made from BPA. Dentists still use it for bonding.
You couldn't do a double blind placebo controlled trial in women. IMHO, it would be unethical, and now we're not supposed to use chimps! You would have to use thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of portable cardiac monitors and rule out other causes of ventricular arrhythmias like coronary artey disease. Getting autopsies is not easy. There's an estimated 300,000 cases of sudden cardiac death annually.
I bow before your scientific acumen, but...
t’was a joke, you see. I make a leetle joke with you.
I was a Men’s Health subscriber for over 10 years, and they’ve been portending the BPA issue for a long time now.
Glad it’s getting serious scrutiny.
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Yeah, if you check the article linked to in #7, they state that pop/soda cans contain a lining with BPA in it. But, ooooops, they also let slip that you’d have to drink *** 940 *** CANS A DAY to get the gov’t. max limit amount.
Plus, as someone else has noted, “a study that fed monkeys 400 times the dose level that is currently considered safe. The result was that the monkeys had blood levels that were lower than the average US adult”.
But the sky is falling!!! Hurry and ban BPA and screw the economy just a little bit more using scary stories.
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Nicely played sir... nicely played.
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